In a baffling move, a handcuffed prisoner bolted from a packed courtroom on Monday morning and threw himself over a balcony.

Christopher Rudd, 35, was sitting inside a Spanish Fort courtroom awaiting a show cause hearing “for skipping out on his rehab,” a Utah State Courts spokesman told KSTU. When all of a sudden he ran from the room and threw himself headfirst over a second-floor courthouse railing.

The 35-year-old had been in custody since April 26, after he was arrested for drug-related offenses, theft, and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person.

Christopher Rudd, 35, was sitting inside a Spanish Fort courtroom awaiting a show cause hearing “for skipping out on his rehab,” a Utah State Courts spokesman told KSTU.

Despite a bailiff’s efforts to break his fall, Christopher Rudd crashed onto the lobby floor and began bleeding from his head.